Role of Socioeconomic Status and Parenting Practices in construction of Violent Behavior among Youth: A Study from South Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

The core objective of this study was to assess the role of socio-economic status and parenting practices in the construction of violent behavior among youth. To get the fruitful results, data was collected from 465 students that were selected from three public sector universities (Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Islamia University Bahawalpur and Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi khan) by using multistage sampling technique. However, Data was collected by using the self-administrated questionnaire. The findings of co-relation analysis revealed that socio-economic status of the respondents (e.g. gender of the respondents, current residence, father’s work place, ownership of house and place of residence) andparenting practices (e.g. Authoritative, Authoritarian and Permissive) had a significant correlation with violent behavior. Similarly, the findings of stepwise regression revealed that socio-economic status (gender, father’s occupation, mother’s qualification, father’s qualification, ownership of house) of the respondents and Parenting practice (Authoritative) were significant predictors of violent behavior among youth. It suggested that proper parental supervision and less communication gap between parents and children can become helpful to overcome the violent behavior among youth.